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‘People don’t even know if help is coming’: Cornish villagers frustrated by lack of help after Storm Goretti

Trees still block roads and scores of people remain without power or water almost a week on from storm

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13

Clues unveiled in hunt for school bomb extortionist

Clues to the identity of a person who threatened to bomb a high school and major events have been released to the public as police hunt down the extortionist.

AAP · Dec 1, 2025

Dozens arrested, assets seized in organised crime sting

A digital sting targeting organised crime has led to dozens more arrests and the seizure of almost $26 million in assets by police.

AAP · Oct 29, 2025

Mourners farewell slain 'legendary' country cop

A police funeral to honour the life of officer Jason Doig, who was killed at an isolated rural property, has been told he was kind, caring, generous and unique.

AAP · Dec 3, 2023

Why Do So Many Of Us Feel Like We’re ‘Falling Behind’ Our Peers?

Like many young people, I have no idea what I want to do with my life. 

Pedestrian.tv · Nov 20, 2023

Public funeral for slain police officer Jason Doig

Landmarks will be lit in blue as the South Australian police community grieves the loss of veteran cop Jason Doig and the commissioner's son, Charlie Stevens.

AAP · Nov 20, 2023

Injured officer set to be discharged after shootout

A police officer has undergone surgery and could soon be discharged from hospital after he was injured in a fatal shootout in South Australia's southeast.

AAP · Nov 18, 2023

Top SA cop's son dies in hospital after alleged hit-run

The 18-year-old son of South Australia's police commissioner has died following an alleged hit-run during schoolies celebrations.

AAP · Nov 18, 2023

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart brings melodrama and Sigourney Weaver as a flower-obsessed matriarch to streaming

In Melodrama Revised, an essay from 1998, film theorist Linda Williams suggests melodrama situates the audience in a direct empathetic relationship with a victim, so we emotionally experience the victim’s subjugation and then triumph with their overcoming. Oscillating between pathos and action, this is the dominant mode of popular American…

The Conversation · Aug 2, 2023

More than 10,000 visits to Sunderland warm spaces hubs in just three months as network expands

Sunderland City Council says the number of hubs has increased from 55 to 67 and offer a range of services

Chronicle Live · Jan 12, 2023